Jumpin said:
He can’t. The guy is just one of these fanatical Nintendo boys who wants to make everything about Nintendo. I’m an ultra-fan if Nintendo myself, but these sorts who try to make up all these fake narratives “The mere word that Nintendo was making a console was what moved Sega to do the same!” just make me cringe. The problem is that these sorts tend to over-emphasize these mythological versions of history, and often downplay the real successes influences of Nintendo. Eveb if that’s even true and Sega said “Ah! I just heard Nintendo is making a console, I guess that means we definitely MUST make one too... not because of any of those other consoles out there!” is a self defeating argument because Nintendo specifically cites ColecoVision as the reason they got into the console industry, thus you can use his logic to argue that ColecoVision is what really caused Sega to move to the living room. Sega moves to home consoles because of a declining arcade industry. There is absolutely no reason to suggest that they needed Nintendo to somehow see the light! As well, they launched two consoles, one featuring a joystick, another featuring a keyboard. It wasn’t until later that they began making a d-pad console like Nintendo. If the guy wants to make an argument of how the NES influenced Sega, it’s the d-pad, that thing was revolutionary. |
Fanboy is a term that is specifically not allowed on the forums. Fanatical Nintendo boy is essentially the same thing, so that's also a no go.
As you did in the second two paragraphs, focus on addressing the actual arguments being made, not on your perceptions of the person making them.
